[fpc-pascal]Synapse for FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > Today I release new version of my 'Ararat Synapse'. (rel. 32)
> >
> > What it is?
> > 'Ararat Synapse' is TCP/IP library for Delphi, C++Builder and Kylix.
> > Now it is for FreePascal too! It can be used for Wn32 systems and for
> > Linux systems too.
> >
> > Synapse is set of non-visual classes and procedures for TCP/IP
> > programming. (IPv4 and IPv6 protocols is supported).
> >
> > Additionally you can use my implementations of SMTP, POP3, IMAP4,
> > SNMP, NTP, SNTP, DNS, Syslog, FTP, TFTP, HTTP or LDAP protocols. You
> > can also use my MIME encoding and decoding engine, you can use my
> > charset transcoding engine... and lot of more stuffs. ;-)
> >
> > For more informations look to 'Ararat Synapse' web.
>
> I looked at the unit (mainly the synsock unit), and I see a Delphi project
> patched for Kylix, which is patched for FPC/Linux.
>
> If you want to make it more generic (I think Solaris/*BSD/MacOSX should be
> possible long term), you need to clean up some things:
>
> - Make a global include file, that stores things like FPC mode, and
> 	all the defines set in each unit.
> - Move OS dependant things for a unit as synsock to include files or units.
> - Separate everything under $IFDEF LINUX in real Linux stuff (like kernel
> 	structures, glibc base and derived types), and "unix" generic stuff.
> - Try to get as many of these structures etc from generic units as Linux/Unix
>       sockets etc.

As far as I was told, this is explicitly not done, so an alternate TCP/IP
implementation can be dynamically loaded.

Michael.